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GTLive, Hot Girls, Hot Cars, Hot Pavement

Miller Motorsport Park, Salt Lake City, UT - Hot. That is the word for GTLive; hot girls, hot action and hot cars, literally. Overheating seems to be the word on the tip of most teams’ lips as the ambient soars towards 100 degrees with the track temp about 20 degrees higher.

Most of the top Subaru Time Attack teams are here including Richard Garcia and the DynoComp STI, Crawford Performance and their “Skunkworks” 2008 STI with Tarzan Yamada at the helm, and even the dynamic duo GC-based cars of TopSpeed and GST Motorsports.

2008 WRX Update, Better Handling

After driving our new 2008 project car, Nemo, around for about a week now, one thing has become glaringly clear: This car needs suspension upgrades. And not needs in the sense of, I need to because I am a driving junky, it needs it because it flat needs it.

During hard cornering on a freeway on-ramp round-about, we were able to get the car to rock back and forth, while under cornering load by getting our trunk monkey to bounce around in the rear seat. Even tracking straight down the road, the car would undulate over bumps. While this is very comfortable for highway driving, it is no good for any sort of performance situation. Why Subaru decided to tune the suspension for Miss Daisy and not Mr. Solberg is a bit of a mystery. Perhaps they thought that the hot hatch market was getting older, perhaps they thought that we really all wanted a vague and “floaty” suspension, or perhaps they just got a killer deal on springs from Buick. There is help though.

Driving the 2008 WRX and 2008 STI on course

Today we put another issue in the can, well more or less in the can. As I write this MediaSpigot Publisher, Ryan Douthit, is slaving over the “technical aspects” of formatting the files that will become the next issue of Subiesport.

While he does that, I am reflecting on my recent driving experiences, most notably a bone-stock 2008 WRX and a very-modified 2008 STI. While the two are very similar in behavior, one is more akin to Bud light, easy to drink and keep in your stomach, even after you drink a whole sixer; while the other is more like Barley Wine, much harder to stomach, especially after you have had a few.

Now I am not saying that one is more enjoyable than the other, but it shows where tuning can get out of hand. Or rather, how a performance-driving setting can bring out the less-than-stellar qualities in a car.

Gary Sheehan Passenger-Cam

Ever wonder what it's like to sit alongside a race car driver in ESX's World Challenge GT Subaru STI? Pro driver Gary Sheehan just uploaded a video (shot by victim, er, passenger Mike Makara) that features a lap from the passenger perspective. This was from an Aston Martin Track Day, recently held by ESX at California Speedway.

Click here to watch in the main viewer!

Subiefest 2008 Announced

Subiefest West will take place at Willow Spring Raceway on Saturday, September 7, 2008. There will be racing, vendors, entertainment and a lot more!

Ladies and Gentleman, get your motors running! See this page for all the info.

Tickets and entry forms for racing will be available this spring.